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Auction 6091 | Lot 36101 » Books » Medicine
Andreas Vesalius. De humani corporis libri septem. [Basile: Johannes Oporinus, June, 1543]. First edition of what is possibly the most famous medical book and certainly the most important anatomical work; it is also considered to be the most beautiful anatomical book of all time.

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Auction 6091 | Lot 36125 » Books » Art & Architecture
Rockwell Kent. Rockwell Kent's Personal Photograph Archive of His Home at Asgaard, Excursions to Denmark, Greenland, Alaska, Puerto Rico, and Monhegan Island, Circa 1931-1953.

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Auction 6091 | Lot 36064 » Books » Manuscripts
[Book of Hours]. Artois [St.-Omer] France. [n.d., ca. sixteenth-century]. Small quarto. Approximately 8.5 x 5.75 inches. Seventy-six leaves. Lacking one leaf after fol. 31, otherwise complete.

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Auction 6091 | Lot 36025 » Books » Color-Plate Books
Thomas L McKenney. and James Hall. History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs Embellished with One Hundred and Twenty Portraits from the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, at Washington. (Total: 3 Items)

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Auction 6091 | Lot 36058 » Books » World History
[Hartmann Schedel. Liber chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493].

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Auction 6091 | Lot 36226 » Books » Science Fiction & Fantasy
Isaac Asimov. The Foundation Trilogy, including: Foundation; Foundation and Empire; Second Foundation. Garden City: Gnome Press, [1951-1953]. All volumes are first editions, in Currey's binding priority (A). (Total: 3 Items)

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Auction 6091 | Lot 36243 » Books » Mystery & Detective Fiction
Ian Fleming. Diamonds Are Forever. London: Jonathan Cape, [1956]. First edition, first printing. Inscribed and signed by the author, "To / Lionel / from / Ian / with affection"

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Auction 6091 | Lot 36313 » Books » Literature Pre-1900
William Shakespeare. Mr. William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. London: Printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and R. Bentley, 1685. The Fourth Folio edition of Shakespeare's Plays.

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Auction 6091 | Lot 36105 » Books » Natural History Books & Prints
[John James Audubon]. Birds of America. New York and Amsterdam: Johnson Reprint Corporation and Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1971-1972. One of only two full-sized facsimile reprint editions ever published of Audubon's Birds of America, this title is issued as one of 250 numbered copies, this being copy number 217. (Total: 4 Items)

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Auction 6091 | Lot 36088 » Books » Science & Technology
[Nicolaus Copernicus. De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, Libri VI...Item, De libris revolutionum Nicolai Copernici Narratio prima, per M. Georgium Joachimum Rheticum ad D. Joan. Schonerum scripta. Basel: Ex Officina Henricpetrina, 1566].

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Auction 6091 | Lot 36102 » Books » Science & Technology
[Bill Wilson]. Alcoholics Anonymous. The Story of How Many Thousands of Men and Women Have Recovered from Alcoholism. New York City: Works Publishing, Inc., 1939. The very rare first edition, first printing of Alcoholics Anonymous' famous "Big Red Book".

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Auction 6091 | Lot 36310 » Books » Literature Pre-1900
Edgar Allan Poe. The Raven and Other Poems. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845. First edition. Octavo.

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Auction 6091 | Lot 36003 » Books » Americana & American History
[Americana]. The Constitution of the Several Independent States of America; the Declaration of Independence; the Articles of Confederation Between the Said States; the Treaties Between His Most Christian Majesty and the United States of America. Published by Order of Congress. Philadelphia: Printed by Francis Bailey, 1781. The first authoritative collected edition of the state constitutions of the United States and the Articles of Confederation, one of only 200 copies printed.

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Auction 6091 | Lot 36015 » Books » Americana & American History
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay]. The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, as Agreed upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787. In Two Volumes. Vol. II. New-York: Printed and Sold by J. and A. M'Lean, M,DCC,LXXXVIII [1788].

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Auction 6091 | Lot 36160 » Books » Fine Press & Book Arts
[Arion Press]. [Barry Moser, illustrator]. Herman Melville. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1979. Limited to 265 copies on Barcham Green handmade paper, of which 250 are for sale. Folio. xv, 576 pages.

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Auction 6091 | Lot 36278 » Books » Literature 1900-up
William Faulkner. Go Down, Moses and Other Stories. New York: Random House, [1942]. First edition, first printing, and number 82 of 100 copies signed by Faulkner.

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Auction 6091 | Lot 36014 » Books » Music & Sheet Music
George and Ira Gershwin, Du Bose Heyward and Rouben Mamoulian. Porgy and Bess. An Opera in Three Acts. New York: Random House, 1935. First edition, number 129 of 250 copies signed by all authors.

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Auction 6091 | Lot 36296 » Books » Literature 1900-up
D. H. Lawrence. The Rainbow. London: Methuen, 1915. First edition, first printing. Signed by Lawrence on title page. ALS from 1915 laid in. Octavo. 463 pages and with 2 additional leaves of advertisements. Publisher's cloth with bright gilt titles to spine and blind stamping to front. Softly bumped corners. Front hinge starting. Stamp washed from imprint on title page. Likely a library copy, but with no other indications. Faint toning to leaves with an occasional small spot of soiling. One leaf with smoothed corner crease. An about fine copy housed in a custom silk chemise and morocco, book-backed, pull-off top box.

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Auction 6091 | Lot 36227 » Books » Science Fiction & Fantasy
Isaac Asimov. I, Robot. New York: Gnome Press, Inc., [1950]. First edition of this science fiction classic. Presentation copy, inscribed by Asimov on the front free endpaper: "For:/Martin Greenberg/who actually got this/book out, by God/Love!/Isaac Asimov/12/2/50".

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Auction 6091 | Lot 36311 » Books » Literature Pre-1900
Edgar Allan Poe. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. (Total: 2 Items)

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Auction 6091 | Lot 36024 » Books » Americana & American History
[Major Stephen H. Long]. Edwin James. An Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819 and '20, by order of the Hon. John C. Calhoun, Sec'y of War under the Command of Major Stephen H. Long. Philadelphia: H. C. Carey & I. Lea, 1822-23. First edition. (Total: 3 Items)

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Auction 6091 | Lot 36256 » Books » Science Fiction & Fantasy
C. S. Lewis. The Ransom Trilogy, including: Out of the Silent Planet; Perelandra; That Hideous Strength. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, [1938, 1943, 1945]. First editions. Together, three octavo volumes. (Total: 3 Items)

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Auction 6091 | Lot 36298 » Books » Literature 1900-up
[Kees Van Dongen, illustrator] Victor Margueritte. La garçonne. avec 28 hors texte de Van Dongen. [Paris]: Ernest Flammarion, [1926]. First illustrated edition, copy number "1," one of only four copies printed on Old Japon and with a suite of color deconstruction plates of the twenty-eight illustrations in the text. Out of a total edition of 778 copies printed. (Total: 2 Items)

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Auction 6091 | Lot 36011 » Books » Americana & American History
Amelia Earhart. 20 hrs. 40 min.; Our Flight in the Friendship. The American Girl, First Across the Atlantic by Air, Tells Her Story. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1928.

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Auction 6091 | Lot 36081 » Books » Maps & Atlases
[Maps]. Abraham Ortelius. Maris Pacifici, (quod volgò Mar del Zur) cum regionibus circumiacentibus, insulisque in eodem passim sparsis, novissima descriptio. [Antwerp, Plantin Press], 1589 [actually, 1590 or 1592].

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